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tidy_colnames

Source: R/tidy_colnames.R
tidy_colnames.Rd

makes the data.frame have column names that are in tidy format.

Usage

tidy_colnames(data)

Arguments

data

data.frame that contains the column names to be converted

Value

data.frame with tidy column names

Details

currently, does the following modifications: 1. lower-case 2. replaces: - periods with underscores - space with underscores - double underscore with one underscore - parentheses with underscore - brackets with underscore - forward and backward slashes with underscore - dash with underscore - e_mail with email - removes trailing white space and trailing underscores

Examples

# before
colnames(carData::Salaries)
#> [1] "rank"          "discipline"    "yrs.since.phd" "yrs.service"  
#> [5] "sex"           "salary"       

# after
df <- tidy_colnames(carData::Salaries)
#> Warning: `tidy_colnames()` was deprecated in eepR 0.5.0.
#> ℹ Please use `janitor::clean_names()` instead.
colnames(df)
#> [1] "rank"          "discipline"    "yrs_since_phd" "yrs_service"  
#> [5] "sex"           "salary"